Pit-Stop In Belgium

Au revoir France…. Bonjour Belgique!

Actually they don’t speak a ton of French in Leuven, mostly just Flemish so I was somewhat out of my depth. This trip wasn’t very planned out, originally I was just flying through Belgium on may way back to Vancouver Island. As fate would have it the plane I was catching had some mechanical issues and I “got stuck” overnight just outside of Leuven where my little sister was training before her international races (she runs the 800m sprint on the Canadian National team).

Leuven is beautiful! I had never paid any attention to this gem of a city until I was literally walking through it. The architecture is spectacular, and its not just the big old buildings… Everything is made with a eye for detail that is unmatched in other places I’ve visited! And I’m not kidding… the flagstones, the foutains, the shop fronts, the brick houses… it was all so beautiful!

I didn’t have much time there, and I only had the clothing I had been wearing when I left Annecy, France almost 10 hours earlier at 4am. So after a quick drop by my sister’s team hostel before she hit the track I stopped off at the H&M to pick up this really cute little outfit for a total of 23 Euros! Ideal!

I didn’t get much time to explore beyond Casey’s windowsill, the town square and my hotel near the airport before I flew out at 10am the next day, but Casey did give me a ride on the back of her bike for what must have been one of the fastest tours of leuven that has ever happened!